XFX was always known for its peculiar marketing strategies that are known to get a lot of attention, and the most recent one is definitely not an exception.

The company came with a campaign where "XFX declares W.A.R" on inferior graphics cards. The "W.A.R" part stands for wreak and ruin while the basic idea is to tell XFX why you'd like to destroy your inferior non-AMD Graphics Card.

The good news is that if you win, XFX will make you a proud owner of its R7970 graphics card. There is a catch though - if you get the XFX R7970, you will have to destroy your card.

The competition is open for EU residents and you need to visit XFX's Facebook page, like it and enter your W.A.R related idea.

You can find XFX Europe Facebook page here. You can get more rules and details here.

Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said Google must start to negotiate on remedies to protect competition or face potentially heavy fines. He told a conference that he expected to receive from Google concrete signs of their willingness to explore this route by early July.

The deadline will bring the first stage of the European antitrust authorities investigation to a close. If Google does not negotiate, regulators will issue a formal “statement of objections” in response to complaints by more than a dozen rivals, who claimed it abuses its dominant position in general web to promote its own secondary services such as price comparison, he said.

Almunia added that if the negotiations go pear shaped formal proceedings will continue through the adoption of a statement of objections. After the statement of objections, the Commission could impose fines of up to 10 per cent of Google global revenues, which were $37.9bn in 2011. This could go a long way to sorting out Greece’s debt problems

Almunia believed that users and competitors would greatly benefit from a quick resolution of the case. Recent signals from Google have suggested it is in no mood to back down which could make things a lot more expensive.

An anti-porn campaigner has sued a blogger who claimed she was hiding her connections to a fundamentalist Christian church. Liberal blogger Jennifer Wilson has been told that she must apologise to Melinda Tankard Reist for calling her a ''fundamentalist Christian'' or be sued.

Reist said that it is not being dubbed a Christian that she objects to, but the claim that she is ''deceptive and duplicitous about her religious beliefs''. She has hired Canberra defamation lawyer Ric Lucas, who once represented Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, former treasurer Peter Costello and their wives in a successful action against publisher Random House over false claims in a memoir by Bob Ellis.

The defiant blogger, who goes by the nom de plume No Place For Sheep, said she would continue to make strong criticisms of Tankard Reist. Wilson said that someone who makes public comment about morality really needs to be upfront about where they are coming from.'

Reist, whose resume includes advising anti-abortion senator Brian Harradine, does not want to discuss her links to evangelical Baptism. Wilson pointed out that Reist's involvement with fundamentalist Christians, who oppose abortion, contraception, surrogacy and homosexuality, are well documented.

It is rare that we agree with any form of marketing or an advert but one being shown by Samsung seems to have hit the spot. The Galaxy S II ad presents hard core Apple fans as lemmings who are so blinded by marketing that they can’t acknowledge a superior phone.

The ad, which was set to premiere on Facebook Tuesday evening and then hit TV on Thanksgiving in the US, doesn’t mention Apple or the iPhone 4S by name. It just shows fans are shown lining up outside an Apple Store-like location nine hours before it opens.

“Someone just left,” says one woman. “Why would they be leaving when we’re only nine hours away?” asks her male companion. “Uh oh,” says another guy in line, reading off his phone. “The blogs are saying the battery looks sketchy.” Then a cool group of young men and women come into the line’s view sporting a Samsung Galaxy S II. One guy haughtily dismisses it because he thinks he is creative. His mate points out that he is a barrister and not at all creative. The ad also makes much of the S II’s 4G compatibility available on US versions of the phone (iPhones are still on 3G).

It is not he first time that ad people have tried to attack Apple's cargo cult followers. SanDisk called them “iSheep” in 2006 when it took on the iPod’s dominance in the portable MP3 player category. Motorola used a piss take of the iconic “1984” Mac ad which showed Apple followers as clueless robots.

None of these work of course, because Apple fanboys see buying their toys as a religion and therefore feel it is ok to be persecuted because only they know the true way. (Check out the video after the break and I'm sorry a certain narcoholic did not post it in the first place. sub.ed.)

President Barack Obama will veto upcoming legislation that would unwind net-neutrality rules the Federal Communications Commission adopted last year.

Telcos had been leaning on their tame puppets in the Congress to kill off the rules which require the FCC to stop them throttling clients traffic and playing favourites with internet traffic. Only Mobile broadband providers are allowed to do that.

Senate Journal Resolution 6, which is expected to go to the Senate floor perhaps as early as this week, “would undermine a fundamental part of the Nation’s Open Internet and innovation strategy — an enforceable, effective but flexible policy for keeping the internet free and open,” the White House said. The House passed a similar measure last spring, and Obama had threatened to veto that, too, if it landed on his desk.

The Senate measure, says Congress “disapproves” of the FCC’s net neutrality rules, which “shall have no force or effect.” Practically the change will mean that US Senators can continue to collect large sums of money in campaign funds from telcos who will not have to upgrade their networks to cope with demand.

Hacking outfit Anonymous has said that it is joining in the anti-Wall Street Protests in New York.

Despite low press coverage the Occupy Wall Street protests gaining traction around the US and now the hacking collective known as Anonymous issued a statement about a planned attack for the financial district. It said that it would specifically target the New York Stock Exchange on October 10 and claims to “erase” the NYSE from the Internet on that day.

Operation Invade Wall Street is likely to be a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the New York Stock Exchange website. The message was included in a video uploaded to YouTube that’s designed to recruit more hackers to the Operation Invade Wall Street cause.

A one-day DDoS attack would be a nuisance for the officials of the NYSE, it’s unlikely to cause any significant damage. However, there are fears that Anonymous will attack to disrupt the exchange and attempt to harm trading on October 10.

So far Anonymous targets the New York City police department which has been doing its best to kill off any good will it might have gained during September 11, by battering harmless protesters and innocent bystanders. Anonymous has released personal information in regards to the officer using the pepper spray such including his phone number, home address and names of relatives.

Samsung has had enough of corruption in South Korea and has decided to go on the attack, first getting its own house in order.

Lee Kun-Hee, chairman of Samsung Electronics, said that an inspection of a group subsidiary found unspecified irregularities which led to the resignation of Oh Chang-Suk of Samsung Techwin, a defence and precision machinery unit. He was replaced by Samsung Electronics executive vice president Kim Cheol-Kyo.

Lee said that corruption and fraud at Samsung Techwin came to light only accidentally but I think it has spread throughout the whole group. He said that this was a growing source of concern for him and he is going to tackle it.

According to Yonhap news agency corruption in the group included taking bribes and hospitality from suppliers. However there was also pressure on junior staff to commit corrupt acts.

Lee called for appropriate penalties against wrongdoers and ordered executives to strengthen the auditing team.

Despite claims by the insecurity industry that your computer will be possessed by viruses in seconds if you don't buy their software, modern computers are fairly safe without them.

According to the British consumer watchdog magazine Which?, computers are less susceptible to viruses and other threats than many users might think. The study found that not one of five computers connected to the internet for four weeks became infected, despite figures suggesting an estimated 60,000 new malware threats occurred daily.

Each machine was used to visit a list of 22 "reputable" websites, ranging from Amazon.com to Tesco.com, for an hour a day. The consumer group said it did not overload the PCs with security software, describing one as such an easy target "it was practically saying come and get me".

Of course the computers were not programmed to visit unsafe sites so the moral of the story is don't visit immoral sites. Or open email, which is another thing that the test did not do.

Apparently, illegitimate copies of Michel Jackson: The Experience for Nintendo DS feature unprecedented means of fighting pirates - vuvuzelas. In case you are not a football fan, vuvuzelas are South African “instruments” that made the experience of watching the World Cup resemble shoving your head into a beehive.

Reports from illegitimate MJ game copy owners suggest that when the illegal copy is detected, the game turns off important on-screen prompts. More importantly, it ruins the musical experience within the game by introducing constant buzzing that will surely introduce flashbacks with many users.

You might have already heard of, or even worse, experienced Ubisoft’s previous and somewhat Orwellian anti-piracy methods, but this latest one really suggests Ubisoft learned a valuable lesson. Dare we say it? Yeah we do, attaboy Ubisoft, that’s the way piracy’s meant to be fought.